Meanings (ES + gloss)
barrizal • cenagal • ciénaga • lamedal • pantano • tremedal
A swampy, soggy area of ground.
Never did I see a more dreary and depressing scene. Miles on miles of quagmire, varied only by bright green strips of comparatively solid ground, and by deep and sullen pools fring…
That quagmire regularly ‘swallows’ caught-up hikers’ boots
apuro • dilema • tembladeral
A perilous, mixed up and troubled situation; a hopeless tangle.
The paperwork got lost in a quagmire of bureaucracy.
Those election results are a quagmire for any coalition except one of national union.
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